Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:00 -0400, Bob S wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 October 2006 15:10, jalal wrote:
> > On 03/10/06, Lennart Börjeson <Lennart.Borjeson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I have really no idea (havn't had any problems with smart myself), but
> > > perhaps
> > > the suggestions in this thread work for you, too?
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=485558
> >
> > No, not really. The problem is simply that the packagers are not
> > putting the correct paths in the smart metadata. Packages are being
> > made for 10.1 and the meta files are being copied over as-is for the
> > 10.0 branch. Which doesn't work... :(
> >
> > Smart itself works fine.
> 
> Sooooo......who are these packagers ????.  And how do we notiy them that the 
> packages are screwed up??  Novell???  SuSE ??? And how do we get them fixed?

This is indeed a big problem. When I look at the repos directory, I get
a nice page with the package names, dates, and other interesting package
links. But no names. No maintainer. No place to provide constructive
info about a repos problem. This is not a forward looking solution. Even
an e-mail link to someone would be nice.

I guess everyone is anonymous.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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